CHAPTER 15
THE LAURASLAND CONFERENCE OF SCIENCE
The first Laurasland Conference of Science brought in all the great thinkers throughout Laurasland and Pangea. The Emeritus Epler had been asked to organize the Conference. Messages had been sent to all the Continents, including Urasia. But there had been no reply from that far north continent. It was assumed the message had been received but the Council could not wait since there was much to do. Pangea, Godswanderland and Laurasland were cooperative continents. The key to this cooperation was the link provided by the Pollo Express. Earlier, pigeons had been employed for inter-continental communications when Lil’ Redhenny had developed writing using the quills from her own flock, ink from black honey and parchment. But electronic communications had replaced all of that antique technology. Now the oceans were no longer the obstacles they once were.
The research that Lil’ Redhenny had sponsored proved to be quite successful. Now there were radio and microwave transmission towers on every mountain top and electrical powerlines running all over the place, some went through the unpopulated and dense forests. Everyone, with the exception of the citizens of Urasia, had electrical power and could communicate to far off places at the speed on light.
Porcus was very intrigued by the variety of mechanical and energy inventions that were being displayed in the Science Exhibit Hall. He would bring his nephews and great nephews along to see the sights. Milanko was very interested in the glass terrariums that were growing plants in a miniature scale to the great nurseries used in the cold north. It wasn’t the plants that caught his eye, it was the moisture and fog in the terrariums that made him start thinking about the invisible atmosphere and the glass shell. As usual with Milanko, he was visualizing things on a huge scale, a whole universal scale. He had read about the greenhouse effect in the studies of the great hog mathematician, Joesy Four. But the haze on the inside of the glass was not uniformly distributed and surely had a different effect on each section of the terrarium’s miniature world. He knew that the research by Cesar of Charles of north Pangea had led to the laws of temperature and gas behavior. Could he develop the equations to combine all these effects? He was deep in thought when his great uncle Porcus nudged him back to reality with, “I’m hungry, are you ready to get something to eat.” Being a hog, that was an easy question to answer. Off they went in search of sustenance and refreshment, Joesy Four and Cesar of Charles would be forgotten for a while.